Welcome
Who we are: The Whittier Time Bank helps people build and share their skills for community self-reliance.
Build your skills: Learn practical skills like fruit tree grafting, canning, beekeeping, and making biodiesel in our monthly Build-Your-Skills workshop series.
Share your skills: Build relationships with your neighbors and earn volunteer credits (time dollars) through our Neighborhood Work Exchange .
Get back on the farm: Join the Whittier Backyard Farms crew at Strub Avenue Farm , participate in farm work days and gardening classes, and support local food reliance.
Other projects and activities:
Build your skills: Learn practical skills like fruit tree grafting, canning, beekeeping, and making biodiesel in our monthly Build-Your-Skills workshop series.
Share your skills: Build relationships with your neighbors and earn volunteer credits (time dollars) through our Neighborhood Work Exchange .
Get back on the farm: Join the Whittier Backyard Farms crew at Strub Avenue Farm , participate in farm work days and gardening classes, and support local food reliance.
Other projects and activities:
- Cardboard and Imagination Day of Play
(with
Whittier Backyard Farms
and Whittier Girl Scout Troop 12894, in association with the
Imagination Foundation and Caines Arcade
)
- Strub Avenue Block Party (with Mark Lakeman of City Repair and Whittier Backyard Farms )
- Sustainability Policy Change (with Legalize Chickens in Whittier )
- Community Yoga Class (with First United Methodist Church of Whittier )
- Martial Arts Class (with First Christian Church of Whittier )
- Bike-In Movie (with Whittier Rio Hondo AIDS Project )
- Whittier Service Work Day Invitational (with Whittier Hills Baptist Church )
- Neighborhood Fruit Picking Project (monthly)
- Really Really Free Market (new feature! in collaboration with Long Beach Free Store )